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Sociolinguistics from the Periphery "presents a fascinating book about change: shifting political, economic and cultural conditions; ephemeral, sometimes even seasonal, multilingualism; and altered imaginaries for minority and indigenous languages and their users."

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THANKS TO EVERYONE WHO RESPONDED TO MY REQUEST FOR PARALLEL TEXTS WITH GOOD QUALITY HUMAN TRANSLATIONS, SUITABLE FOR MY MT EVALUATION RESEARCH (LINGUIST 14.1461).

HERE IS A SUMMARY OF RESOURCES AVAILABLE FROM THE WEB:

INTERSECT CORPUSFRENCH-ENGLISH:LE MONDE, INSTRUCTIONS FOR DOMESTIC APPLIANCES, TECHNICAL AND ACADEMIC TEXTS AND OTHERSGERMAN-ENGLISHCOMPANY HOME PAGES, NEWS ITEMS, EU DOCUMENTS AND MORE HTTP://WWW.BRIGHTON.AC.UK/EDUSPORT/LANGUAGES/HTML/INTERSECT.HTMLTHANKS TO PROFESSOR RAPHAEL SALKIE, UNIVERSITY OF BRIGHTON, UK

PROCEEDINGS OF THE EUROPEAN PARLIAMENTMANY EUROPEAN LANGUAGES INTO ENGLISHHTTP://WWW.ISI.EDU/~KOEHN/PUBLICATIONS/EUROPARL/THANKS TO SUSANA SOTELO DOCÍO, UNIVERSIDADE DE SANTIAGO DE COMPOSTELA

OPUS CORPUS

ENGLISH SOURCE TEXTS TRANSLATED INTO FRENCH, SPANISH, SWEDISH, GERMAN, AND JAPANESE.JÖRG TIEDEMANN AND LARS NYGAAARD COMPILED THE DOCUMENTATION OF THE OFFICE PACKAGE OPENOFFICE[1] AND THE PHP[2] MANUAL. THE RESULTING CORPUS IS OPUS - AN OPEN SOURCE PARALLEL CORPUS.HTTP://LOGOS.UIO.NO/OPUS/[1] HTTP://WWW.OPENOFFICE.ORG[2] HTTP://WWW.PHP.NETTHANKS TO SUSANA SOTELO DOCÍO, UNIVERSIDADE DE SANTIAGO DE COMPOSTELA

CENTRE FOR DISEASE CONTROL (USA)CHINESE, FRENCH, JAPANESE, SPANISH INFO ON SARS AND MANY OTHER MEDICAL TOPICSHTTP://WWW.CDC.GOV/HTTP://WWW.CDC.GOV/NCIDOD/SARS/LANGUAGES.HTMTHANKS TO PAUL MCNAMEE, JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY

OFFICIAL JOURNAL OF THE EUFREELY DOWNLOADABLE EUROPEAN LEGISLATION IN MANY LANGUAGESHTTP://EUROPA.EU.INTTHANKS TO PAUL MCNAMEE, JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY, TERENCE LEWIS (LANGUAGE ENGGINEER) AND KOEN.KERREMANS

PUBLIC REGISTRY OF THE COUNCIL OF THE EUPDF FILES IN VARIOUS LANGUAGES. TRANSLATIONS INDICATE THE SOURCE LANGUAGE.HTTP://REGISTER.CONSILIUM.EU.INT/THANKS TO JOHN BEAVEN